My Final Major Project for Art and Design Foundation year at AIB

NB: I wont wear this very often, I wore it for one photoshoot and it took me 2 hours to get in to, 2hrs to take 12 photos and another 2 hrs to get out of it! It is also a phyiscally painful costume to wear due to the headress weighing over a stone. The latex and being naked isnt comfortable either!

The photos are also part of my FMP, I had the help of my dad (Philip Sindall) who luckily happens to be the best camera operator in the UK, hurrah for having parents with camera and lighting knowledge!The set up is a black drape covered in fairy lights and 2 of our lamps from home create the halo effect. There is a plastic sheet infront of this. I am back lit by a Red head with full blue cover, and front lit by light bouncing of mirrors to give it that broken up effect to resemble water. I then have a number of LED's placed in my headress. It took 3 days of testing to set it up and get the lighting and exposure we wanted.



PROSTHETICS: Made a modrock mould of parts of my body, then cast it in fine plaster of paris. I then used latex and latex thickener mixed with various shades of blue inks and painted it on in several layers. Base layer, thick dark blue waves, light blue veins.
I have prosthetics for
-my boobs
-left shoulder and arm
-stomach
-right thigh
-left shin
attaching with spirit gum and the rest of my body will be painted with 4 different tones of blue body paint

HEADRESS: Chicken wire skull cap shape with the main Jenova headress shape placed over it, which is constructed out of one sheet of polypropylene and heat bonded together. Lead stitched into the front to pull the weight forward, this is what makes it weigh so much.

PLATE: The Jenova plate is made out of nickel sheet with "JENOVA" and the various serial numbers indented into it using a nail and bevel. I spray painted it but lost a lot of the indentation defination so painted into the indents with acrylic using a porcupine quill...

HAIR: A mixture of wires threaded through very thin crin and either left as single strands, twisted round each other or curled into spring shapes. I then ahd trouble getting hold of thick crin so decided to make me own. I got a pole greased it up and wrapped netting around it then while twisting the pole held a glue gun from a distance to it and let the glu gun wrap itself around the netting as I twisted it. I then pulled off the netting and hey presto my very own crin! Which is then stitched onto the headress with various wire supports